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Starry night as a time-lapse image captures the scene around Pad 41 at midnight November 13/14. Bathed in spotlights, the Atlas 5 sits on the pad as liquid oxygen and hydrogen and detanked from the vehicle following the scrub. Liquid oxygen can be seen venting at top. A gust of wind likely took this image right near the end of the 90 minute launch window: